Losing One's Head in the Ancient Near East (ePub)
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This volume examines the meaning of this specific act in times of war. With examples drawn from Anatolia, Syria and Mesopotamia between the 3rd and 1st millennium BC, from prehistory to the Neo-Assyrian period, this fascinating study will be valuable to anyone interested in the dynamics of war in the ancient world.
Rita Dolce is Associate Professor of Archaeology and History of Near Eastern Cultures and Fine Arts at the Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy, and a member of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Syria, where she has excavated for 40 years at the site of Tell Mardikh-Ebla. Her research interests lie mainly in the figurative art, urban topography and architecture of the third millennium BC in Mesopotamia and Syria. She has written numerous books and articles focusing particularly on visual communication as the language of power and a means of dissemination in the societies of the Ancient Near East, and on the urban origins of Ebla, its palatial culture and the structure and significance of cult places in this important Early Syrian kingdom.
- Autor: Rita Dolce
- 2017, 110 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis
- ISBN-10: 1351657097
- ISBN-13: 9781351657099
- Erscheinungsdatum: 15.12.2017
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